Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Chicot, AR

Arkansas · pop. 10,180 · FIPS 05017

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$9M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Chicot $9M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexRelatively Low 43.77/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (44th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 92.24/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Low 31.9/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (32nd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Chicot

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 153 flood-insurance claims totaling $4.2M in Chicot since 1979. The costliest year was 2011 ($2.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $5,347 paid 1982: $2,440 paid 1983: $12,406 paid 1989: $5,949 paid 1990: $9,473 paid 1991: $28,373 paid 1994: $2,014 paid 1995: $7,202 paid 1996: $821 paid 1997: $43,994 paid 1999: $3,558 paid 2001: $3,400 paid 2002: $26,311 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $6,660 paid 2008: $424,936 paid 2009: $47,290 paid 2011: $2,444,322 paid 2013: $12,567 paid 2016: $452,173 paid 2018: $53,639 paid 2019: $268,092 paid 2020: $0 paid 2021: $0 paid 2022: $2,301 paid 2024: $310,252 paid 2025: $22,249 paid 2011 · $2.4M 1979 2025
$4.2M
total paid
$27,423
average claim
$238K
largest single claim
29%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Chicot, AR and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Chicot is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.